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I'm mulling over a timeline where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the mid-1960s manages to avoid coming into the ownership of Kirk Kerkorian but is instead able to stabilise things and eventually recover. Having righted the ship they start looking around for extra sources of income and aside from taking a stake in a casino in Las Vegas they start to consider follwing Universal's lead of opening a studio theme park as ways of monetising their history and intellectual property.

Where to locate it though is tricky. They had a backlot just across Overland Avenue from their main site, what is today Sony Pictures, which was a bit small but could be expanded with purchases, but it's a bit flat. Universal Studios being up in the hills looks as though it sits in front of some rises and is split over a couple of levels, it's a slightly odd question I know but having never been myself and relying on maps or Google Earth to get a general idea being less than perfect would anyone who's been be able to say whether it added anything to the park or was it simply their having to work around the local geography? The alternative is for MGM to buy up the oil field land between Culver City and Ladera Heights during a downturn and build there.
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